THE US
Jewish Community is going to organise a
seminar in Brussels following recent
survey results which saw a majority of EU
citizens name Israel as the biggest threat
to world peace.

David
Irving comments:

YES, this
appears to have been a case of
democracy at its very worst:
people being asked their private
opinions, and despite all that
the media can do, coming up with
this truly appalling result. The
outcome is clearly way off the
map. There must have been
something wrong with the
pollsters, or their pencils, or
their pads, or their attitude
that day. Everybody knows
that the fragrant little nation
slandered in this poll is the
most peace-loving on earth, and
always has been, and that in
consequence its people are the
most widely loved -- nay, they
are loved with a lasting and
abiding sense of global
affection, by everybody, wherever
they may be -- whether beneath
the tracks of a Caterpillar
bulldozer, or crushed in the
ruins of a home at Jenin, or
stunned by the blast of a salvo
of missiles fired into a main
street in Gaza by an
American-built Apache helicopter
gunship, or intimated by a
German-built tank. If anybody does
not love these truly
affection-inspiring people, then
he is manifestly a sick man
indeed, and Europe must conjure
forth seminars, with educational
kits and all the other
paraphernalia of mind-bending and
brainwashing with which the world
has been familiar since the end
of the Holocaust. Just see how
the President of Europe scuttles
across the Atlantic, arms
flailing wildly, to apologise for
his people, and to seek
absolution from the Anti-Defamation
League and the World Jewish
Congress in New York!

HOW apt was the well-known
verse of Christian
Morgenstern, the German
humorist: Und damit schloss er
messerscharf | dass nicht sein
kann was nicht sein darf. I
translated that once, in my
Milch
biography as, And thus in
his considered view | what did
not suit could not be
true. No doubt some
"experts" would call this
translation lying, wrong,
manipulated, and even false: but
I am beyond repair; my beliefs
are cast in stone, and I prefer
my ways to those of the likes of
Mr Prodi. Three cheers
for democracy. I shall be a
democrat henceforth.

The results published on
Monday, sparked outrage in Israeli
government circles and sent the
Commission, which organised the poll, into
a diplomatic tailspin.

At
the meeting both sides agreed that a
seminar should be organised in Brussels
in order to find out why European
citizens (59% of the around 7,500
surveyed) put Israel ahead of countries
such as Iran and North
Korea.

A date for the seminar has
still to be agreed but a Commission
spokesperson said it could be before the
end of the year.

Mr Prodi also did much to
mollify the Jewish community by distancing
himself and his institution from the
results.

"I am very concerned by the
survey's findings: they reveal a prejudice
that must be condemned without
hesitation", he said in New York.

"In a Europe born out of
horror for the war and the Holocaust there
is no place for or tolerance of
anti-Semitism".

Similarly, in an interview
with Italian Newspaper, La Stampa,
he said that the Eurobarometer neither
reflects the opinion nor the policy of the
Comission.

He went on to say that no
countries should have been listed in the
poll.

The poll conducted by
telephone between 8 and 16 October asked
7,515 citizens what country they thought
is the biggest threat to world peace.
There were 15 countries on the list,
including the US and Europe.

A spokesman for the
Commission denied that the poll had been
political.